scott61 wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 3:05 am Are the girls "hands-on" inside the bars ?

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 10:48 am

MelissaEinsel wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 5:26 pm Hi there,
Mélissa here, author of the article.
Could the moderators kindly leave the link and remove the cut-and-paste text to avoid infringing TravelMag copyright? Happy for you to reprint the list ans link to the article but all the text and the photos are intellectual property of TravelMag.com.
Hope you enjoy trying out the bars!

https://www.travelmag.com/articles/cock ... hnom-penh/

I removed some of the text and added your link at the end of every paragraph. And don't worry about the images, they are just embedded from the original location on TravelMag. And not to split hairs, but I assure that not a single one of those photos are the intellectual property of TravelMag, as each one of them have clearly been taken from other websites.

Great article, and feel free to post any other articles you write that would be of interest to expats in Cambodia (with a valuable link, of course) here on CEO in any format/style you like!

cabron wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:53 am

scott61 wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 3:05 am Are the girls "hands-on" inside the bars ?

No girls at least in the one I visited (Sora Sky bar, Prei, Elephant Bar) all the bars listed in this post have a different orientation.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 8:00 am

scott61 wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 3:05 am Are the girls "hands-on" inside the bars ?

These are cocktail bars, why the hell would you expect you could molest the staff? Have some decorum.

Liberman summarizes as follows:[17]

It was customary to dock the tails of horses that were not thoroughbred [...] They were called cocktailed horses, later simply cocktails. By extension, the word cocktail was applied to a vulgar, ill-bred person raised above his station, assuming the position of a gentleman but deficient in gentlemanly breeding. [...] Of importance [in the 1806 citation above] is [...] the mention of water as an ingredient. [...] Låftman concluded that cocktail was an acceptable alcoholic drink, but diluted, not a "purebred", a thing "raised above its station". Hence the highly appropriate slang word used earlier about inferior horses and sham gentlemen.
Cocktail historian David Wondrich also speculates that "cocktail" is a reference to gingering, a practice for perking up an old horse by means of a ginger suppository so that the animal would "cock its tail up and be frisky."[18]

violet wrote: ↑Sat May 06, 2023 3:41 am I’d never considered the etymology of the word cocktail before. From wikip

Liberman summarizes as follows:[17]

It was customary to dock the tails of horses that were not thoroughbred [...] They were called cocktailed horses, later simply cocktails. By extension, the word cocktail was applied to a vulgar, ill-bred person raised above his station, assuming the position of a gentleman but deficient in gentlemanly breeding. [...] Of importance [in the 1806 citation above] is [...] the mention of water as an ingredient. [...] Låftman concluded that cocktail was an acceptable alcoholic drink, but diluted, not a "purebred", a thing "raised above its station". Hence the highly appropriate slang word used earlier about inferior horses and sham gentlemen.
Cocktail historian David Wondrich also speculates that "cocktail" is a reference to gingering, a practice for perking up an old horse by means of a ginger suppository so that the animal would "cock its tail up and be frisky."[18]